2024 Paris Olympic Games still have 2 years, as the Chinese sports delegation to win the gold, the national table tennis naturally waiting for the slightest slack, the Chinese women's team has been very clear, if there is no accident, the world's top 3 Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu hand in hand to play in the women's team, the women's singles 2 qualifications only need to choose 2 of 3, the qualification of the Chinese men's team is more fierce, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long's main position is stable, the 3rd person battle will basically be between Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin.
From the Tokyo Olympic Games to the WTT Singapore Grand Slam, all the major competitions in which Fan Zhendong and Ma Long participate, both of them firmly occupy the world ranking of men's singles 1st and 2nd with stable play, and are also the leaders of the national table tennis men's team, then the third candidate of the national table tennis team of the Paris Olympic Games must meet multiple criteria, have a super first-class level in singles strength, and can also cooperate with Fan Zhendong or Ma Long to appear in the men's team competition, but also to bear the heavy responsibility of mixed doubles gold, the current conditions actually include Liang Jingkun, Xu Xin and Wang Chuqin, due to Xu Xin's old age, gradually lacked strength in singles events, which is basically the ultimate PK between Liang Jingkun and Wang Chuqin, and it will last until the eve of the Olympic Games 2 years later.
Liang Jingkun in the last issue of the men's singles world ranking once came to a new career high 3rd place, this week due to the absence of the Doha star game, resulting in the Brazilian player Hugo was surpassed again, currently ranked 4th, Liang Jingkun in the men's singles field the biggest point is to play stable, foreign war losses are very small, in 2019 with stable play to achieve the world championship third place, 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships again won the bronze, the only foreign war loss in the past year is last year's World Cup finals 1-3 defeat to Nigeria's Aruna. It is precisely because of the outstanding foreign war results, Liang Jingkun's world ranking has also gone all the way up, from the world's 8th to the 4th, but Liang Jingkun also has shortcomings, from last year's Houston World Table Tennis Championships to this year's Singapore Grand Slam, the semi-finals against Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, always lack effective breakthrough means, temporarily do not have the strength to pick the world's strongest two, the game process seems very helpless, the opponent becomes in front, the hard power is stronger than him, there is no technology to reverse the situation.
Purely as a men's singles player, Liang Jingkun is already the 3rd main force of national table tennis, but the 3rd person in the Paris Olympic Games only plays a men's singles in the men's team competition, more role in doubles, the first set of the men's team doubles to play a blockbuster, exciting role, mixed doubles more to have the strength to win gold, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan are currently men's doubles partners, with Ma Long, Fan Zhendong rarely partnered in the competition, mixed doubles is basically with the main force of the national table tennis women's team has never been partnered, which brings him a huge challenge to become the 3rd person in the Paris Olympic Games. Unless Ma Long and Fan Zhendong have 1 person who cannot participate, or Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan are invincible in the men's doubles field, there must also be fixed female teammates and Liang Jingkun with mixed doubles and the results are outstanding.
On the other hand, Xu Xin and Wang Chuqin are both left-handed, both have mixed doubles fixed partners, but closer to the Paris Olympic Games, the world's 8th place Xu Xin lost to Francesca in the Grand Slam, trapped by the decline in singles strength, age led to slower running range and movement speed, coupled with the recent failure to participate in doubles competitions, Xu Xin in the Paris Olympic qualification competition is lagging behind, is not the result that the coaching staff wants. And Wang Chuqin in the World Table Tennis Championships and Grand Slam venues are all in 3, and Fan Zhendong's men's doubles cooperation gradually into a good situation, won the Grand Slam championship, and Sun Yingsha's cooperation is to win 2 consecutive championships, the achievements in the two doubles events have added a lot of impression points to Wang Chuqin, his singles although ranked 13th in the world, but has not recently lost foreign wars, the World Table Tennis Championships lost to Fan Zhendong, the Grand Slam lost to Ma Long, from the current point of view Wang Chuqin is the 3rd person in the coaching team's ideal Paris Olympic national table tennis men's team, It is possible that Liang Jingkun will go with him as a P card.